Stanimir Panayotov: Curriculum Vitae June 2015

Ph.D. Student Working Thesis Title: The Obsolete Dept. of Gender Studies Body: Gender and Dis/Embodiment in Central European University Neoplatonism and Speculative Realism Budapest, Hungary [email protected] Supervisor: Ass. Prof. Eszter Timár

Short narrative bio: Stanimir Panayotov (1982) graduated in Philosophy from Sofia University and holds MA in Philosophy and Gender Studies from Euro-Balkan Institute (2011) with a thesis on Plato’s natural philosophy and the problem of femininity/maternity in the ancient concept of space (khôra). He is currently a PhD student in comparative gender studies at Central European University, Budapest, working on the relation between gender and the body in the cosmologies of Neoplatonism and New Realism. His research interests and published work are centered round issues in feminist and continental philosophy, queer theory, and gender studies. Stanimir is also part of Social Center Xaspel and New Left Perspectives in Sofia, and of IPAK.Center – Research Center for Cultures, Politics and Identities in Belgrade, where he co-organizes the Summer School for Sexualities, Cultures and Politics.

I. EDUCATION . MA: Philosophy and Gender Studies, Institute for Social Sciences and Humanities Euro-Balkan, Skopje, Macedonia, 2011  Thesis: Khôra: Femininity and Space in Plato’s Timaeus  Supervisor: Prof. Miglena Nikolchina

. BA: Philosophy, Sofia University, Sofia, Bulgaria, 2004  Thesis: Genesis of the Problem of Civil Society: Plato to Marx  Supervisor: Prof. Emilia Mineva II. EMPLOYMENT . Junior Researcher and Teaching Assistant, Institute for Social Sciences and Humanities Euro-Balkan, Skopje, Macedonia, 2010-2013; Subjects thaught: Methodologies and Epistemologies of Humanities and Social Sciences; Biopolitics, Academic Year 2011/2012

III. FELLOWSHIPS . Fellow at the Institute of Philosophy, Slovenian Academy of Sciences, Ljubljana, Slovenia, Jan-June 2013  Supervisor: Prof. Alenka Zupančič

IV. RESEARCH PROJECTS . Q-Files (www.qfiles.net) - Online bibliographical project in Bulgarian on LGBTIQ and Sexualities Issues (March 2005–terminated June 2015)

. RESET Project: Regional Seminar in Gender/Women’s Studies and European studies 2004-2006 (Euro-Balkan Institute, Skopje)

. Media and Marginalized Communities (2011, Coalition for the Protection of Marginalized Communities, Skopje)

. Study Report on the Progress in Gender Balance and Equality in AREC’s Processes of Reforms (2012, Euro-Balkan Institute, Skopje)

. Diverse Survivor Strategies of Jewish and Roma Communities in Macedonia: From Resistance to Memorialization (2012, Euro-Balkan Institute, Skopje)

. Creating New Left Perspectives in Bulgaria (2011-, Social Center Haspel, Sofia)

V. PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES . Summer School for Sexualities, Cultures and Politics, organizer, Macedonia/Serbia, 2012- . Sofia Queer Forum, co-director, Sofia, 2012- . Transeuropa Festival – Sofia, 2011-2013 . Anarres Books, co-founder and editor, Sofia, 2011-2013 . KOI Books, co-founder and editor, Sofia, 2013- . Summer School for Holocaust Studies, organizer, Ohrid, Macedonia, 2012 . LGBT Art Fest, organizer, Sofia, 2009 VI. MEMBERSHIPS . IPAK - Research Center for Cultures, Politics and Identities, Research & Advisory Board, Belgrade, 2013- . Coalition for the Protection of Marginalized Communities, Executive Board Chair, Skopje, 2011-2013 . European Alternatives Network, member, 2011-2013 . Social Center Haspel, co-founder and member, Sofia, 2010-

VII. PUBLICATONS VII.1. AUTHORED BOOKS . Stanimir Panayotov, God vs. F31, Blagoevgrad: Ars/Scribens, 2013. (in Bulgarian)

VII.2. EDITED BOOKS . Nikolay Karkov and Stanimir Panayotov (Eds.), Autonomism and Marxism: From the Paris Commune to the World Social Forum, Sofia: Anarres, 2013. (in Bulgarian) . Boryana Rossa and Stanimir Panayotov (Eds.), Sofia Queer Forum, Sofia: Anarres, 2013. (in Bulgarian/English) . Haralambi Panitsidis, Emilia Mineva and Stanimir Panayotov (Eds.), Marx: Heterogenous Readings from the XX Century, Sofia: Anarres, 2012. (in Bulgarian) . Stanimir Panayotov (Ed.), Queer Art in Bulgaria, Sofia: Bilitis, 2010. (in Bulgarian/English) VII.3. EDITED JOURNALS . Literaturen Vestnik, Special Issue: Power, Gender, Culture, No. 20/2003, Sofia, Literaturen Vestnik Foundation. (in Bulgarian) . Katerina Kolozova and Stanimir Panayotov (Eds.), Identities, Special Issue: Heretical Realisms, Vol. 8, No. 2, Skopje: Euro-Balkan Press, 2011. (in English) . Sextures, Special Issue: Queer Balkans (ongoing). (in English)

VII.4. ARTICLES/BOOK CHAPERS IN JOURNALS/EDITED VOLUMES/WEBSITES . “Homomythologies, Heterosociologies,” in: Demokraticheski pregled, Vol. 50/2002, http://www.dem-pr.hit.bg/2002_3/2002_3_17.htm ; in: LiterNet, 20.02.2003, № 2 (39), http://liternet.bg/publish2/spanajotov/gay/homomitologii.htm. (in Bulgarian) . “3+3=3. Aspects of the Capitalist Gender,” in: Gender & Media, Sofia: Bulgarian Gender Project Foundation, 2003. (in Bulgarian)

. “The Normative Problem of the Homosexual Subject: Gay & Lesbian Studies and Queer Theory,” in: Kritika I Humanizam, Vol. 17/2004; in: LiterNet, 15.02.2005, № 2 (63), http://liternet.bg/publish2/spanajotov/queer/normativniat.htm. (in Bulgarian)

. “The Binary Code (Notes on The Celebrating of Homosexuality),” in: Identities, Vol. 8-9. No. 1/2005. (in Macedonian/English)

. “Heart’s Unreason: A Reading of Edelman’s Anti-Futurism through Bataille,” in: Identities, Vol. 8, No. 2/2011. (in English)

. “De/legitimization of Activism and the Dilemma of Integration or Assimilation,” in: Zarko Trajanoski (Ed.), Media and Marginalized Communities, Skopje: Coalition for the Protection of Marginalized Communities, 2011. (in Macedonian/English) . “On ‘Self-Changing’,” in: Haralambi Panitsidis, Emilia Mineva, Stanimir Panayotov (Eds.), Marx: Heterogenous Readings from the XXth Century, Sofia: Anarres, 2012. (in Bulgarian) . “Neutralizing Visibility: Bulgarian Strategies of Justifying Inequality,” in: Nárcisz Fejes and Andrea P. Balough (Eds.), Queer Visibility in Post-socialist Cultures, Bristol: Intellect Books, 2013. (in English) . [with Nikolay Karkov] “Autonomism, Marxism, Revolution. Notes from Somewhere,” in: Nikolay Karkov and Stanimir Panayotov (Eds.), Autonomism and Marxism: From the Paris Commune to the World Social Forum, Sofia: Anarres, 2013. (in Bulgarian) . “The Outlawed Is Stronger than the Law: Repathologization of Homosexuality,” in: Marginalia, December 23 2014, www.marginalia.bg/analizi/izvan-zakona-si-po-silen- ot-zakona-repatologizatsiya-na-homoseksualnostta-parva-chast (Part I); Marginalia, December 30 2014, http://www.marginalia.bg/analizi/izvan-zakona-si-po-silen-ot- zakona-repatologizatsiya-na-homoseksualnostta-vtora-chast (Part II). (in Bulgarian) . “Displaced Emplacement,” in: Piron, Vol. 10, Special Issue: Julia Kristeva. The Form and Meaning of Revolt, edited by Darin Tenev and Kamelia Spassova. (in Bulgarian) VII.5. CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS . “The Gender Paradigm As A Lack of the Local Object (On the Discursive Limits of A Regional Queer Theory),” in: Đurđa Knežević (Ed.), Woman & Politics: Sexuality Between the Local and the Global, Zagreb: Zenska Infoteka, 2005. (in English/German/Croatian)

. “Postcolonial Fire,” in: Đurđa Knežević (Ed.), Women & Politics: Eastern Europe and the Third World - Women's Attempt to Re-establish the Dialogue, Zagreb: Zenska Infoteka, 2006. (in English/German/Croatian)

. “On Guattari’s Planetary Psychopathology,” in: Melentie Pandilovski (Ed.), The Apparatus of Life and Death, Skopje: Euro-Balkan Press, 2011. (in English) . [with Matt Mahon, Sam Wilson, Chris Wong, Joseph Noonan-Ganley] Opinion Paper and Round-Table Discussion in “Speculative Realism, Object-Oriented Philosophy and the Criticality of Critical Thought: A Roundtable,” in: O-Zone: A Journal of Object-Oriented Studies, Vol. 1/2015 (forthcoming). (in English). . “Pride: Between Permission and Hijacking,” in: Nebojša Milikić (Ed.), Debate: Pride and Politics. Essays by the Participants in the Debate held in Rex Cultural Center on February 26 2013. Belgrade: Fond b92. (In English/Serbian)

VII.6. INTERVIEWS . [with Galena Eduardova] “Human Bodies Are Envious to Technologies. An Interview with Rosi Braidotti,” in: Altera, 9/2005. (in Bulgarian) . “Michael O’Rourke in Conversation with Stanimir Panayotov: X, Welcome!!!,” in: Identities, Vol. 8, No. 1/2011. (in English) . “3 Questions to Guy Standing”, in: Transeuropa Journal, April 2012, http://transeuropafestival.eu/wp-content/themes/transeuropa- 1.0/pdf/journalSPREAD.pdf; European Alternatives, April 2012, http://www.euroalter.com/2012/three-questions-to-guy-standing. (in English) . “3 Questions to Haspel Social Center”, in: Transeuropa Journal, April 2012, http://transeuropafestival.eu/wp-content/themes/transeuropa- 1.0/pdf/journalSPREAD.pdf. (in English) . “Politics of Incomparability. Interview with Rayna Markova,” in: Kultura, 19/2012, http://www.kultura.bg/bg/article/view/19747. (in Bulgarian) . “After Oedipus’ Heels. Interview with Jasna Koteska,” in: Kultura, 22/2012, http://www.kultura.bg/bg/article/view/19832. (in Bulgarian) . “Politics – Art – Gender/Queer” – discussion curated by Stefka Tsaneva with Boryana Rossa, Stanimir Panayotov, Viktor Yankov, and Leda Ekimova, in: Blister Magazine, January-December 2013, http://blistermagazine.com/site/wp- content/uploads/2014/01/%D0%B1%D0%BB %D0%B8%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80- %D0%B4%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%BA%D1%83%D1%81%D0%B8%D1%8F.pdf. (in Bulgarian). VII.7. BOOK REVIEWS . “The Myth of Modern Historian” (Rictor Norton, Myth of The Modern Homosexual: Queer History and The Search for Cultural Unity, Cassel: London, 1997), in: Kultura, 16/2003, http://www.online.bg/kultura/my_html/2271/heterologia.htm. (in Bulgarian) . “The Crisis as A Subject” (Judith Butler et al., Proceedings from The Seminar Crisis of The Subject, Held in Ohrid, Macedonia, 11-14 May, 2000, Skopje: Euro-Balkan Institute, 2001), in: Kultura, 20/2003, http://www.online.bg/kultura/my_html/2275/heterologia.htm. (in Bulgarian) . “McDonalds, 16th of November 1619” (Leela Gandhi, Postcolonial Theory. A Critical Introduction, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1998), in: Kultura, 26/2003, http://www.online.bg/kultura/my_html/2281/heterologia.htm. (in Bulgarian) . “The Reign of Original Romanticisms” (Richard Eldridge, Persistence of Romanticism, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001), in: Kultura, 47/2003, http://www.online.bg/kultura/my_html/2302/heterologia.htm. (in Bulgarian) . “Said as A Figure of Recollection”] (Edward Said, Freud and the Non-European, Verso: London, 2003), in: Kultura, 5/2004, http://www.online.bg/kultura/my_html/2307/heterologia.htm. (in Bulgarian) . “The Little Integration” (Roman Kuhar, Media Representations of Homosexuality. An Analysis of the Print Media in Slovenia, 1970-2000, Ljubljana: Peace Institute, 2003), in: Kultura, 16/2004, http://www.online.bg/kultura/my_html/2318/heterologia.htm. (in Bulgarian) . “R’edip” (Gilles Deleuze & Felix Guattari, Anti-Oedipus. Capitalism and Schizophrenia I, Sofia: Critique & Humanism, 2004), in: Kultura, 33/2004, http://www.online.bg/kultura/my_html/2335/antiedip.htm. (in Bulgarian) . “Who’s Afraid of Technologies?” (Rosi Braidotti, Metamorphoses. Towards a Materialistic Theory of Becoming, London: Polity Press, 2002), in: Kultura, 2/2005, http://www.online.bg/kultura/my_html/2352/heterologia.htm. (in Bulgarian) . “Funny, All Too Funny” (Simon Critchley, On Humour, London & New York: Routledge, 2002), in: Kultura, 11/2005, http://www.online.bg/kultura/my_html/2361/heterologia.htm. (in Bulgarian) . “Left Leftovers” (Judith Butler, John Guillory, Kendall Thomas (Eds.), What’s Left of Theory? New Work on the Politics of Literary Theory, London & New York: Routledge, 2000), in: Kultura, 17-18/2005, http://www.online.bg/kultura/my_html/2368/heterologia.htm. (in Bulgarian) . “New Sex Nomenclatures” (Identities, Vol. 3, No.1, Skopje: Euro-Balkan Institute, 2004), in: Kultura, 30/2005, http://www.online.bg/kultura/my_html/2380/c-pol.htm. (in Bulgarian) . “The Modern Narrated for Postmodernists” (Frederic Jameson, A Singular Modernity, Sofia: Critique & Humanism, 2005), in: 39 grama, 4/2005. (in Bulgarian) . “Transferatu” (Sigmund Freud, Psychoanalysis: Theory and Therapy [ed. and trans. by Vladimir Teoharov], Sofia: Critique & Humanism, 2005), in: Literaturen Vestnik, 22/2005. (in Bulgarian) . “Freud: Therapy, Solitude” (Sigmund Freud, Psychoanalysis: Theory and Therapy [ed. and trans. by Vladimir Teoharov], Sofia: Critique & Humanism, 2005), in: 39 grama, 10/2006. (in Bulgarian) . “The Last Possible Potlatch” (Guy Debord, Panegyric, Vols. 1 & 2, London: Verso, 2004), in: LiterNet, 10.09.2008, № 9 (106), http://liternet.bg/publish2/spanajotov/philosophy/g_debord.htm. (in Bulgarian) . “Performing Frida” (Bojan Đorđev, Siniša Ilić, Sena Đorović (eds.). Frida Kahlo - Una pierna y tres corasonez, Beograd: Muzej savremene umetnosti, 2002), in: LiterNet, 02.01.2009, № 1 (110), http://liternet.bg/publish2/spanajotov/frida.htm. (in Bulgarian) . “Implosion/Splanchnologia” (Martin Zlatev, Implosion, Sofia: Macros, 2007), in: Literaturen Vestnik, 3/2009. (in Bulgarian) . “Review of Sanitary Enigma” (Jasna Koteska, Sanitary Enigma, Skopje: Templum, 2006), in: Jasna Koteska’s Blog, 13.10.2009, http://jasnakoteska.blogspot.com/2009/11/stanimir-panayotov-2009-review-of.html,. (in English) . “A Vertigo of Books” (Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus. Capitalism and Schizophrenia II, Sofia: Critique and Humanism, 2009), in: Literaturen vestnik, 38-9/2009; 3/2010; 4/2010. (in Bulgarian) . “Ask the Puppet” (Thomas Ligotti, The Conspiracy against the Human Race, New York: Hippocampus Press, 2010), in: Identities, Vol. 8, No. 2/2011. (in English) . “Nihilism or Nothing” (Gianni Vattimo, Nihilism and Emancipation, Sofia: Critique and Humanism, 2011), in: Literaturen Klub, 24.04.2012, http://www.litclub.bg/library/fil/panayotov/vattimo.html. (in Bulgarian) . “The Queer Therapist Unbound” (Lindsey Moon (Ed.), Counseling Ideologies: Queer Challenges to Heteronormativity, Farnham: Ashgate, 2011), in: Sextures, Vol. 2, No. 1/2012 Sydney. (in English) . “Gaga Fails” (Judith Jack Halberstam, Gaga Feminism. Sex, Gender and the End of Normal, Boston: Beacon Press, 2012), in: Inter Alia, 6.1.2014, http://interalia.org.pl/en/artykuly/reviews.htm,. (In English) . “Transition, Transitology, and their Sexual Other ” (Robert Kulpa and Joanna Mizieliñska (Eds.), De-Centring Western Sexualities. Central and Eastern European Perspectives, Farnham: Ashgate, 2011), in: Sextures, June 2014. (in English) . “On Becoming the World” (William E. Connolly, A World of Becoming, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2011), in: ID: International Dialogue, A Multidisciplinary Journal of World Affairs Vol. 4/2014.

VII.8. WRITINGS ON MUSIC . “Acoustic Fear (A Fragment on Bjork),” in: Altera, 7/2005. (in Bulgarian) . “Black Noise Ruins. Notes after Locrian’s Rain of Ashes,” in: Michael O’Rourke and Karin Selberg (Eds.). P.E.S.T. Philial Epidemic Strategy Tryst, New York: Radical Matters, 2015 (forthcoming). . “Uninhibited Fascinum: On Upyr’s Altars/Tunels),” in: Heathen Harvest, 13 Jan 2015, http://heathenharvest.org/2015/01/13/uninhibited-fascinum-on-upyrs- altarstunnels (in English). . “The Inner Wind: On Trysth’s Soulchambers),” in: Heathen Harvest, 14 Jan 2015, http://heathenharvest.org/2015/01/14/the-inner-wind-on-trysths-soulchambers (in English.)

VII.8. ESSAYS/OP-EDS . “The Functions of Insane Sexuality: Marquis de Sade,” in: LiterNet, 22.05.2002, № 5 (30), http://liternet.bg/publish2/spanajotov/philosophy/sad.htm. (In Bulgarian) . “Toward A Gender-Dadaism,” in: Literaturen Vestnik, 20/2003; in: LiterNet, 04.04.2004, № 4 (53), http://liternet.bg/publish2/spanajotov/gender/dadaism.htm (in Bulgarian) . “Theatrical Facts (On Rob List’s THE421),” in: Kultura, 28/2004, http://www.kultura.bg/media/my_html/2328/c-teatf.htm. (in Bulgarian) . [with Monika Pisankaneva] “2004 Seen through Gay Activism,” in: Kultura, 3/2005, http://www.online.bg/kultura/my_html/2353/gey.htm. (in Bulgarian) . “Towards the Parade of Normality,” in: Dnevnik, June 25 2008, http://www.dnevnik.bg/analizi/2008/06/26/519047_kum_parada_na_normalnostta. (in Bulgarian) . “Repoliticizing the Existing,” in: Liberalen Pregled, December 15 2008, https://librev.com/discussion-politics-publisher/426-2009-06-16-20-51-34. (in Bulgarian) . “Politics and the Supercilious Intolerance,” in: Liberalen Pregled, April 4 2009, https://librev.com/discussion-bulgaria-publisher/539-2009-06-16-06-29-44. (in Bulgarian) . “From Tradition to Experimentation,” in: Stanimir Panayotov (Ed.), Queer Art in Bulgaria, Sofia: Bilitis, 2010. (in Bulgarian/English) . “Receptive Solidarity. A Conceptual Addition to the Work of Boryana Rossa and Oleg Mavromatti” in: LIK, 8/2011. (in Bulgarian) . “Law and Family: Not in Our Name,” in: Okno, 19.11.2012, http://okno.mk/node/23611. (in Macedonian) . “New and Left: Politics of the Impossible,” in: Trud, 06.01.2013, http://www.trud.bg/Article.asp?ArticleId=1704538; Novi levi perspektivi, 08.01.2013, http://novilevi.org/publications/53-novo-i-liavo-politika-na-nevazmojnoto. (in Bulgarian) . “Speed and Annihilation,” in: Novi levi perspektivi, 21.02.2013, http://novilevi.org/publications/76-skorost-unishtozhenie. (in Bulgarian) . “For More Happy Drag Queens,” in: Boryana Rossa and Stanimir Panayotov (Eds.), Sofia Queer Forum, Sofia: Anarres, 2013. (In Bulgarian/English) . “Annoyance or Boredom,” in: Kultura, 23/2013, http://www.kultura.bg/bg/article/view/21093 (in Bulgarian). . “Homophobes Hate Women,” in: Trud, 21.06.2013, http://www.trud.bg/Article.asp? ArticleId=2083138 (in Bulgarian); in: Okno, 27.06.2013, http://okno.mk/node/29469. (in Macedonian) . “Macedonia, Or How The Nation Dies in Pink,” in: Novi levi perspektivi, September 10 2013, http://novilevi.org/publications/124-zernovski-beauty. (in Bulgarian) . “Procreation and Protest: Bulgarian Capitalism’s Children,” in: Novi levi perspektivi, April 30 2014, http://novilevi.org/publications/174-potomstvo-protest (in Bulgarian); in: Left East, May 7 2014, http://www.criticatac.ro/lefteast/bulgarian-capitalisms- children-protest (in English). . “Anti-Anti-TTIP, or, against the Better Masters,” in: Novi levi perspektivi, October 12 2014, http://novilevi.org/publications/198-antiantittip (in Bulgarian). . “Liberal Dehumanization,” in: Novi levi perspektivi, December 23 2014, http://novilevi.org/publications/221-liberal-dehumanization (in Bulgarian); in: Left East, January 7 2015, http://www.criticatac.ro/lefteast/bulgarias-creeping-apartheid-ii- liberal-dehumanization (in English). . “…in As Much Europe Belongs to Kalin Yanakiev Today Too,”, in: Novi levi perspektivi, February 4 2015, http://novilevi.org/publications/231-europe-yanakiev (in Bulgarian.) VII.9. BELLES LETTRES (in Bulgarian only) . Diaries (Nebula and Nihil; The Hunter of Sun Eclipses; Singularity: The Annihilation of a Possibility; Astral Sabotage; Cloaca Minima; Sol in Aquarius, Lina in Aquarius, Dies Saturni xii Novembris MMIV), in: Public Republic, 12-18 December 2012, http://www.public-republic.com/magazine/author/delinkuent. . “Letter to Elijah Burgher,” in: Crosspoint, 1.12.2013, http://crosspoint.mediabg.eu/? p=12420.

VIII. PARTICIPATION IN PUBLIC EVENTS VIII. 1. CONFERENCES/SEMINARS: PAPERS DELIVERED . “Medieval Agency: The Process of Philosophical Information,” paper presented at XVIIIth Conference on Medieval Philosophy and Culture in Elena, Bulgaria, June 2003, Medieval Studies Centre, Department of Philosophy, Sofia University.

. “The Gender Paradigm as a Lack of the Local Object,” paper presented at Sexuality between the Local and the Global, 19-24 May 2004, Dubrovnik, Croatia. . “Postcolonian Fire,” paper presented at Eastern Europe and the Third World: Women’s Attempt to Re-establish the Dialogue, 19-21 May, 2005, Dubrovnik, Croatia.

. “Invested (Feminist) Elites and the Future of Class Struggle,” paper presented at Gender Studies of and for the Region of the Balkans: Winter Colloquium on Thematic and Epistemic Issues, Institute for Social Sciences and Humanities Research “Euro- Balkan,” 30 October – 2 November, 2009, Skopje, Macedonia.

. “Universalism and Male Silence,” paper presented at Gender Studies of and for the Region of the Balkans: Summer Colloquium on Epistemic Issues in Gender Studies, Ohrid Summer University, June 2010, Ohrid, Macedonia.

. “On Guattari’s Planetary Psychopathology,” paper presented at The Apparatus of Life and Death, Skopje Electronic Arts Fair, Skopje Museum of Contemporary Arts, 6-7 October 2010, Skopje, Macedonia.

. “Sexual Khôra,” paper presented at European Geographies of Sexualities, Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussels, 8th – 10th September 2011, Brussels, Belgium.

. “Puppeteering Nothing: Thomas Ligotti and the Abolishment of Paradox in Life,” paper presented at Energy, Biopolitics, Strategies of Resistance and Cultural Subversion, Skopje Electronic Arts Fair, Skopje Museum of Contemporary Arts, 2 November 2011, Skopje, Macedonia.

. “Straight Separatism: Theses on the Queer Archive,” paper presented at In/visible: The Sexual and Political Regimes of the Archive, Skopje, National Gallery of Macedonia – Chifte Hamam, 25 February 2012.

. PhD Project Paper presented at Life Matters: Microlife, Species, and Extinction, 2 May 2012, Linkoping University, Sweden.

. Opinion paper on “Speculative Realism/Object-Oriented Philosophy and the Criticality of Critical Theory” (roundtable), presented (via video) at the London Conference of Critical Thought, Birkbeck, London, 29 June 2012.

. ““Europe, You Babylonian Whore!”: Europe as the Scene of Perversion,” paper presented at Counterpublics: Re-Enacting Communities, Queering Nationalisms, Belgrade, Serbia, 29 June 2013, Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory. . “The People’s Anti-Liberal Rationalizations of Inequality: The Case of LGBTs in Bulgaria,” presented at Between (post)socialism and (neo)liberalism, Panel Critique of Liberal Ideology, 23 July 2013, Social Center Haspel, Sofia.

. PhD Project Paper presented at Sex Machines: Theorizing Contemporary Pleasure, October 2013, Linkoping University, Sweden.

. “Sad Rainbows,” presented at Coloring the Black: A Black Metal Theory Symposium, 20 March 2015, GalleryX, Dublin, Ireland.

VIII. 2. TALKS/LECTURES . “Linguistic Issues of Sexual Identity,” lecture at the event Being Sexually Different in Bulgaria Today at The Red House Center for Culture and Debate, Sofia, Bulgaria, 24 January 2005.

. Talk on Derek Jarman’s Blue at the X-FILMS Events Series, Vaska Emanouilova Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria, 16 May 2009.

. “Deleuze, Guattari, and Becoming-Woman,” lecture at the School of Gender and Politics in Euro-Balkan Institute, Skopje, Macedonia, February 2010.

. “Planetary Psychopathology and Communist Democracy,” lecture at the Festival Means without Ends, Knowledge without Price at La Kana, Skopje, Macedonia, 4 September 2010.

. Talk on the movie Paris Is Burning at GEM, Skopje, Macedonia, 22 March 2011. . Talk at the Nationalism, Homophobia, Sexuality event and the movie Beyond the Pink Curtain, GEM, Skopje, Macedonia, 17 May 2011. . The Balkan Forum, Panel Sexual and Class Equality, 6th Subversive Festival, Europa Cinema, Zagreb, Croatia, 13 May 2013. . “Repathologization of Homosexuality in Bulgaria Today,” lecture at the 10th LGBT Art Fest Sofia, The Red House Center for Culture and Debate, Sofia, Bulgaria, 2 December 2014. . “Felix Guattari’s Machinic Unconsciousness,” lecture at Sofia Underground 2015: Machines, the fridge & Xaspel, Sofia, Bulgaria, 1 May 2015. . Talk on the movie I Stand Alone by Gaspar Noe at Faculty of Philosophy and History, Plovdiv University, Plovdiv, Bulgaria, 18 June 2015. VIII.3. OTHER EVENTS: . Participant in Gender & Media, Faculty of Mass Communication, Sofia University & Bulgarian Gender Project, Sofia, Bulgaria, March-May 2003. . Participant in The Sense, The Subject, and The Phantasm. A Seminar Dedicated to Identity and Politics in French Philosophy, Center for Advanced Studies, Sofia, Bulgaria, 2003. . Participant in Mine Doesn’t Understand Yours: An East-West Conference, Spotykach, Berlin, Germany, 7-9 June, 2006. . Moderator of the round table Queer Arts and Activism in CEE: Points of Convergence, 5th LGBT Art Fest Sofia, The Red House Center for Culture and Debate, Sofia, Bulgaria, 4 December 2009.

. Moderator of the debate Socially Engaged Art and the Change of Public Attitudes, Transeuropa Festival, Haspel Social Center, Sofia, Bulgaria, 12 May 2011.

. Moderator of the debate Feminization of Poverty and Labour: Crisis and Cross-Gender Solidarity in the EU and Beyond, Transeuropa Festival, Red House Center for Culture and Debate, Sofia, Bulgaria, 13 May 2011.

. Participant at the forum Agora Transeuropa, Panel Reclaiming the Commons: Towards a European Campaign on Common Goods, Teatro Valle, Rome, Italy, 2 May 2012,

. Participant in the debate Brain Drain in Eastern Europe, Dom omladine, Belgrade, Serbia, 10 May 2012.

. Participant in the debate Pride and Politics, Rex Cultural Center, Belgrade, Serbia, 26 February 2013.

. Participant in the May Day School: Transition, Austerity and Primitive Accumulation, Workers & Punks’ University, Stara Elektrarna, Ljubljana, Slovenia, April 26 – May 1, 2013.

. Participant in the forum Europe beyond Europe, Panel Social Struggles and Constituent Movements for Another Possible Europe, S.a.L.E. docks, Venice, Italy, 25 May 2013.

. Convener of the forum Towards a Citizens’ Pact: Work and Welfare in Europe, Social Center Haspel, Sofia, Bulgaria, 22-23 June 2013.

X. TRANSLATIONS X.1.1. BOOKS: ENGLISH TO BULGARIAN . Peter Burger (Ed.), The Desecularization of The World. Resurgent Religion and World Politics, Sofia: Critique & Humanism, 2004. . Wendy Brown, Beyond Tolerance and Injury: The Future of Political Theory (selection and translation), Plovdiv: Janet 45, 2010. . Derek Jarman, Blue, in: Literaturen Klub, Issue 152, January 2011, Sofia, http://litclub.bg/library/prev/jarman/blue.html. . David M. Halperin, Forgetting Foucault: Acts, Identities, and the History of Sexuality, Sofia: Critique & Humanism (forthcoming). X.1.2. BOOKS: MACEDONIAN TO BULGARIAN . Jasna Koteska, Sanitary Enigma, Sofia: Critique & Humanism, 2011. X.2.1 ARTICLES, BOOK CHAPTERS, ESSAYS, OP-EDS: ENGLISH TO BULGARIAN . Rictor Norton, “Some Fallacies of Social Constructionsim”, in: LiterNet, 06.02.2001, № 2 (15), http://liternet.bg/publish1/rno rton/konstruktion.htm . Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, “Queer-Performativity: Warhol’s Whiteness/Warhol’s Shyness”, in: Literaturen Vestnik, 20/2003; LiterNet, 05.01.2005, № 1 (62), http://liternet.bg/publish12/ik_sedzhuik/queer.htm . Katherine Bourguignon, “Performing the Closet. Grids and Suits in the Early Art of Gilbert and George”, in: Literaturen Vestnik, 20/2003; LiterNet, 17.07.2004, № 7 (56), http://liternet.bg/publish12/k_byrgiuinyn/performirane.htm . An Pelegrini, “Tribas”, in: LiterNet, 15. 06. 2002, http://liternet.bg/publish6/anpelegriny/tribadi.htm . Dana Heller, “Feminism”, in: LiterNet, 11. 07. 2002, http://liternet.bg/publish6/dheler/feminizym.htm . Marilyn Farwell, “Androginy”, in: LiterNet, 03. 07. 2002, http://liternet.bg/publish6/mfarewel/androginnost.htm . Catherine Helden, “Letter to The Thistle: Bisexuality and Feminism”, in: LiterNet, 28.02.2002, № 2 (27), http://liternet.bg/publish1/kholdyn/bodil.htm . Carl Witman, A Gay Manifetso, in: LiterNet, 26. 06. 2002, http://liternet.bg/publish6/kwitman/gay.htm . Davi Ricardo Albuquerque, “Genealogy, Power, Sexuality”, in: LiterNet, 09.03.2002, № 3 (28), http://liternet.bg/publish1/dalbiukiuerk/genealogia.htm . Mary McIntosh, “The Homosexual Role”, in: Club Cybele, April 2004, http://clubcybele.tripod.com/macintosh.htm; LiterNet, 30.01.2005, № 1 (62), http://liternet.bg/publish12/m_makintosh/homoseksualnata.htm . Adrienne Rich, “Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence”, in: LiterNet, 29.10.2008, № 10 (107), http://liternet.bg/publish21/e_rich/prinuditelna.htm . Diana Fuss, “Introduction” (to Inside/Out), in: LiterNet, 22.11.2005, № 11 (72), http://liternet.bg/publish15/d_fuss/otvytre.htm . Steven Seidman, “Introduction to Queer Theory”, in: LiterNet, 02.01.2006, № 1 (74), http://liternet.bg/publish15/s_zaidman/vyvedenie.htm . VNS Matrix, Cyberfeminist Manifesto for the 21st Century, in: 39 Grama, 18/2006. . VNS Matrix, The Bitch-Mutant Manifesto, in: 39 Grama, 18/2006; LiterNet, 28.03.2006, № 3 (76), http://liternet.bg/publish2/anonim/vns_manifest.htm . Nicolas Mullins, “Model for the Development of Sociological Theories”, in: Wolf Lepenies (ed.), History of Sociology, vol. 2, 2004, Sofia: Kaliopa. . Nicolas Mullins, “Ethnomethodology. The Specialty that Came in from The Cold”, in: Wolf Lepenies (ed.), History of Sociology, vol. 2, 2004, Sofia: Kaliopa. . Stephen Cole, “Continuity and Institutionalisation in Science: A Case Study of Failure”, in: Wolf Lepenies (ed.), History of Sociology, vol. 3, 2004, Sofia: Kaliopa. . Rosi Braidotti, “On Becoming Europeans”, in: Luisa Passerini, Dawn Lyon, Enrica Capussoti, Ioanna Laliotou (eds.), Women Migrants from East to West (forthcoming). . Hanne Petersen, “Transformations of Legal Subjectivity in Europe: From the Subjection of Women to Privileged Subjects”, in: Luisa Passerini, Dawn Lyon, Enrica Capussoti, Ioanna Laliotou (eds.), Women Migrants from East to West (forthcoming). . [co-translated with Nadezhda Alexandrova] Luisa Passerini, “Gender, Subjectivity, Europe: A Constellation for the Future”, in Luisa Passerini, Dawn Lyon, Enrica Capussoti, Ioanna Laliotou (eds.), Women Migrants from East to West (forthcoming). . Terre Thaemlitz, “I-Pod is Raping the Rapist Who Raped My Village”, in: Comatonse, July 2006, http://www.comatonse.com/writings/ipodisraping_bu.html; Tigersuit Zine, 4/2012. . Franco Berardi, “What Is The Meaning of Autonomy Today?”, in: Indymedia Bulgaria, 12.03.2009, http://bulgaria.indymedia.org/article/34873. . Alain Badiou, “Communism Is What Is a New Idea in Europe: A Dialogue with Alain Badiou,” in: Indymedia Bulgaria, 30.03.2009, http://bulgaria.indymedia.org/article/34942. . Wendy Brown, “Wounded Attachments”, in: Altera Academica, Vol. 6/2008. . Wendy Brown, “Power without Logics without Marx”, in: Altera Academica, Vol. 6/2008. . Steven Shalom, “ParPolity: A Political System for a Better Society”, in: Life After Capitalism, April 2009, http://www.lifeaftercapitalism.info/politicalvisions/93- parpolity/73-parpolity. . Alain Badiou, “Is The Word Communism Forever Doomed?”, in: Life After Capitalism, October 2009, http://www.lifeaftercapitalism.info/critique/132-is-the- word-communism-forever-doomed. . Diamanda Galas, “Godhead and Anal Glue”, in: Liberalen Pregled [Liberal Review], 07.11.2009, https://librev.com/discussion-world-publisher/731-2009-11-07-12-24-52. . [with Jana Tsoneva] Peter Hallward, “Our Role in Haiti’s Plight,” in: Indymedia Bulgaria, 15 Jan 2010, http://bulgaria.indymedia.org/article/36408. . Thomas Ligotti, “Malignant Uselessness,” in: Public Republic, 20.12.2010, http://www.public-republic.com/magazine/2010/12/65879.php. . Tilda Swinton, “Letter to An Angel,” in: Literaturen Klub, Issue 152, January 2011, Sofia, http://litclub.bg/library/prev/swinton/jarman.html. . Raphael Kamhi, “Concerning the Quantity of Deported People by the Nazis from Thessaloniki in 1943: An Eye-Witness Account,” in: Sofija Grandakovska, The Jews from Macedonia and the Holocaust, Skopje: Euro-Balkan Institute, 2011. . Judith Butler, “Foreword” (Gender Trouble, 1999 edition), in: LiterNet, 18.05.2011, № 5 (138), http://liternet.bg/publish27/judith-butler/predgovor.htm. . Wendy Brown et al., “Learning to Love Again. An Interview with Wendy Brown,” in: Novo Vreme 9-10/2011 (September-October), http://novovreme.com/index.php? option=com_content&view=article&id=4795&Itemid=66. . Mladen Alexiev, “The Body Matters,” in: Identities, Vol. 8, No. 2/2011. . Franco Berardi, “Respiration, Conspiracy and Solidarity,” in: Life after Capitalism, http://www.lifeaftercapitalism.info/critique/231-respiration-cospiration-and- solidarity-berardi, 05.04.2012. . “European Charter of Commons,” in: European Charter Project, 23.04.2012, http://www.commonssense.it/emend. . Antonio Negri and Judith Revell, “On the Institution of the Commons,” in: Life After Capitalism, May 2012, http://www.lifeaftercapitalism.info/project-nlp/238-on-the- institution-of-the-common-toni-negri-and-judith-revel. . Jason Read, “University Experience: Neoliberalism against the Commons,” in: Life After Capitalism, May 2012, http://www.lifeaftercapitalism.info/project-nlp/239- university-experience-neoliberalism-against-the-commons-jason-read. . Erich Fromm, “The Falsification of Marx’s Concepts”, in: Haralambi Panitsidis, Emilia Mineva, Stanimir Panayotov (Eds.), Marx: Heterogenous Readings from the XXth Century, Sofia: Anarres, 2012. . Shlomo Avineri, “Hegel’s Political Philosophy Reconsidered”, in: Haralambi Panitsidis, Emilia Mineva, Stanimir Panayotov (Eds.), Marx: Heterogenous Readings from the XXth Century, Sofia: Anarres, 2012. . Robert C. Tucker, “Marx in Changing Perspective”, in: Haralambi Panitsidis, Emilia Mineva, Stanimir Panayotov (Eds.), Marx: Heterogenous Readings from the XXth Century, Sofia: Anarres, 2012. . Mihailo Markovi . , “Marx and Critical Scientific Thought”, in: Haralambi Panitsidis, Emilia Mineva, Stanimir Panayotov (Eds.), Marx: Heterogenous Readings from the XXth Century, Sofia: Anarres, 2012. . Raya Dunayevskaya, “Marx’s Humanism Today”, in: Haralambi Panitsidis, Emilia Mineva, Stanimir Panayotov (Eds.), Marx: Heterogenous Readings from the XXth Century, Sofia: Anarres, 2012. . Mariya Ivancheva, “Bulgaria’s Class War,” in: Novi levi perspektivi, Aug 4 2013, http://novilevi.org/publications/119-ivancheva-class-war . Richard Seymour, “Workers Play A Big Role in These Global ‘Middle-Class’ Revolutions,” in: Novi levi perspektivi, Aug 5 2013, http://novilevi.org/publications/120-seymour-workers . C.L.R. James, Raya Dunayevskaya and Grace Lee, “The Class Struggle,” in: Nikolay Karkov and Stanimir Panayotov (Eds.), Autonomism and Marxism: From the Paris Commune to the World Social Forum, Sofia: Anarres, 2013. . John Holloway, chapters 12 & 13 from Crack Capitalism, Sofia: Anarres, 2013. . Volodymyr Ishchenko, “I Hate: On the War in Ukraine,” in: Novi levi perspektivi, March 3 2014, http://novilevi.org/publications/162-ishchenko-ukraine. . [with Alexander Feodorov] Zhivka Valiavicharska, “History’s Restless Ruins: On Socialist Public Monuments in Postsocialist Buglaria,” in: Novi levi perspektivi, December 2 2014, http://novilevi.org/publications/209-valiavicharska-monuments. . Amy Bryzgel, “Performing Gender in Eastern Europe,” in: Stefka Tsaneva (Ed.), Sofia Queer Forum 2014: Manifestations of the Personal, Sofia: KOI, 2014. . Snejanka Mihaylova, “Commentary (on Amy Bryzgel),” in: Stefka Tsaneva (Ed.), Sofia Queer Forum 2014: Manifestations of the Personal, Sofia: KOI, 2014. . Luchezar Boyadjiev, “Commentary (on Amy Bryzgel),” in: Stefka Tsaneva (Ed.), Sofia Queer Forum 2014: Manifestations of the Personal, Sofia: KOI, 2014. . Judith Butler, “Guantánamo Limbo,” in: Georgi Medarov (Ed.), Critical Perspectives on Human Rights, Sofia: KOI, 2014. X.2.2 ARTICLES AND/OR BOOK CHAPTERS: BULGARIAN TO ENGLISH . [with Mariya Ivancheva] Sotiris Theoharidis, Philosophy and Barbarians. A Dialogue with Kostas Axelos (2006, unpublished) . Nadia Plungian, “Feminist Art in Russia: From Women’s Resistance to Queer Issues,” in: Boryana Rossa and Stanimir Panayotov (Eds.), Sofia Queer Forum, Sofia: Anarres, 2013. . Boryana Rossa, “Gender Equality in Bulgaria Today: An Activism which Cannot Speak English Is No Activism,” in: Stefka Tsaneva (Ed.), Sofia Queer Forum 2014: Manifestations of the Personal, Sofia: KOI, 2014. . Vladiya Mihaylova, “Vaska Emanouilova’s Compositions,” in: Stefka Tsaneva (Ed.), Sofia Queer Forum 2014: Manifestations of the Personal, Sofia: KOI, 2014. . Emi Baruh, “The Myth of Saving the Bulgarian Jews” (2012, unpublished) X.2.3. BELLES LETTRES: BULGARIAN TO ENGLISH . Hristina Pandzaridis, “A Hundred Mothers and A Hundred Fathers,” in: Blesok, No. 85, July-August, 2012, http://blesok.mk/tekst.asp? lang=eng&tekst=1347#.UEVSSbIgefU X.3.1. ARTICLES AND/OR BOOK CHAPTERS: MACEDONIAN TO BULGARIAN . Zarko Trajanoski, “The Sexual Life of Macedonians: The Penis Lost in Translation”, in: Kultura, 5/2005, http://www.kultura.bg/media/my_html/2355/macepenis.htm; LiterNet, 05.05.2005, № 5 (66), http://liternet.bg/publish15/zh_traianoski/seksualniat.htm . Zarko Trajanoski, “The Psychoanalyst’s Ten Commandments”, in: 39 Grama, 10/2006. . Jasna Koteska, “On the Status of the Unconscious and the Dream”, in: 39 Grama, 10/2006. . Jasna Koteska, “Communist Memory,” in: Daring to Remember/Wagnis der Errinerung, Berlin: Goethe-Institut, 2010, http://www.goethe.de/ins/gr/lp/prj/eri/wag/bg12107629.htm. . Ilinka Crvenovska, “The Real Author. History of A Misunderstanding,” in: Haemus, 1/2012. . Zdravko Saveski, “Capitalism, Socialism, and the Fear,” in: Novi levi perspektivi, 12.01.2013, http://novilevi.org/publications/54-saveski. X.3.2. ARTICLES AND/OR BOOK CHAPTERS: MACEDONIAN TO ENGLISH . Marina Abramovic interviewed by Kocho Andonovski, “Body as Home,” in: DOMA, Issue 0/Spring 2010, Ed. by Antonio Petrov and Sofija Grandakovska. . Sofija Grandakovska, “Creating History: Early Byzantine Literature and its Presentment in XIVth Century Fresco Painting,” in: Misa Rakocija (Ed.), Nis and Byzantium, Vol. 8, 2011, Nis. . Ivanka Apostolova, “From Sensory Experience to the Anthropology of Experience,” in: Identities, Vol. 8, No. 2/2011. . Sofija Grandakovska, “How To Speak About the Holocaust in Macedonia . in the Absence of Living Witnesses from Treblinka II?,” in: Yad Vashem Studies (forthcoming). X.4. ARTICLES AND/OR BOOK CHAPTERS: SERBIAN/CROATIAN TO BULGARIAN . Milan Kangrga, “Marx’s Conception of the Revolution”, in: Haralambi Panitsidis, Emilia Mineva, Stanimir Panayotov (Eds.), Marx: Heterogenous Readings from the XXth Century, Sofia: Anarres, 2012. . Veljko Korac, “Some Actual Observations on Karl Marx’s Actuality”, in: Haralambi Panitsidis, Emilia Mineva, Stanimir Panayotov (Eds.), Marx: Heterogenous Readings from the XXth Century, Sofia: Anarres, 2012. . Svetozar Stojanovic, “Social Self-Management and Socialist Community,” in: Nikolay Karkov and Stanimir Panayotov (Eds.), Autonomism and Marxism: From the Paris Commune to the World Social Forum, Sofia: Anarres, 2013. XI. TRANSLATIONS EDITED: ENGLISH TO BULGARIAN . John Holloway, “We Are The Crisis of Capital,” in: Tigersuit Zine, 4/2012. . John Holloway, Crack Capitalism, Sofia: Anarres, 2013. . Jelena Vesić, “Look for New Partisans: A Conversation with the Authors of the Video Partisan Songspiel. Belgrade Story,” in: Boryana Rossa and Stanimir Panayotov (Eds.), Sofia Queer Forum, Sofia: Anarres, 2013. . Wendy Brown, “Tolerance as a Discourse of Power,” in: Georgi Medarov (Ed.), Critical Perspectives on Human Rights, Sofia: KOI, 2014.